The Plymouth Brethren

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Introvigne
Keyword(s):  
School System ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
International School ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Fundamentalist Movement ◽  
Charitable Activities

Plymouth Brethren are a larger Christian movement, including a dozen of different denominations. They originate from a 19th-century revival in the British Isles, around John Nelson Darby—regarded by some of the father of the evangelical fundamentalist movement—and others who dreamed to restore the purity of primitive Christianity. The revival eventually extended to Continental Europe, particularly Switzerland and Italy, and later France and Germany, as well as to United States, Canada, and China. While some lived this dream in ecumenical terms, those who would eventually be called Exclusive Brethren came to believe that true Christians should separate themselves from the corruption of existing denominations, and break bread in their assemblies only with those sharing their interpretation of the Bible. In turn, Exclusive Brethren fragmented into several rival denominations. The book, based on both historical research and participant observation of contemporary communities, presents the different branches of the Brethren, but focuses on a case study of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, one of the largest groups of the Exclusive Brethren. It discusses their beliefs, daily life, international school system, and charitable activities, mentioning also the controversies surrounding their practice of strict separation from those who are not part of their community, and the accusations brought against the Brethren by media and some former members within the framework of contemporary controversies about cults.

scholarly journals CULTIVATING MARINE LEADERSHIP CHARACTER THROUGH MULTICULTURAL BOARDING-SCHOOL SYSTEM

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
Aan Fardani Ubaidillah ◽  
Ibrahim Bafadal ◽  
Nurul Ulfatin ◽  
Achmad Supriyanto
Keyword(s):  
School System ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Land Cultivation ◽  
Data Validity ◽  
Depth Interviews

The internalization of character values in the boarding-schools should ideally be designed to answering the challenges of the context of Indonesia as a multicultural country. This study aims to reconstruct the character cultivation through the multicultural boarding school system as an internalization model of marine leadership characters. This study employed a single-holistic case study in a Senior High School of Taruna Nala, East Java, Indonesia, that implemented a boarding school system. The data collection was conducted through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentary analysis, and the results was presented interactively. The data sources studied were determined by purposive sampling and snowball sampling. The data validity was tested with four criteria: credibility, dependability, confirmability, and transferability. This study found that the character of maritime leadership is the reponsive (tanggap), tough (tanggon), and agile (trengginas) as unique-intelligent characters that must be mastered by senior high schools in Indonesia as a maritime country. To make it happens, the internalization of character values can be done through a cultivation model, like in planting, consisting of: (1) determining the goals, (2) the seeds selection, (3) land cultivation, (4) planting the seeds, (5) maintenance, and (6) fertilization. The model is carried out in full through the boarding system education system.

scholarly journals Tensão entre racionalidades: estudo de caso da associação de catadores de materiais recicláveis de Lavras (ACAMAR)

ForScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e00788
Author(s):  
Camila Pereira de Souza ◽  
Valderí de Castro Alcântara ◽  
Alyce Cardoso Campos ◽  
Ananda Silveira Bacelar ◽  
Érica Aline Ferreira Silva Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Social Research ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Instrumental Action ◽  
The City

O presente trabalho trata de uma pesquisa social qualitativa, realizada em um empreendimento econômico solidário de catadores de materiais recicláveis, na cidade de Lavras, Minas Gerais. O objetivo do estudo consiste em compreender os efeitos das tensões entre as racionalidades substantiva e instrumental na gestão da ACAMAR (Associação de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Lavras). Para a coleta de dados foram utilizadas técnicas de pesquisa documental, observação participante e entrevista semiestruturada. As análises ocorreram em quatro momentos: investigação de cada elemento constitutivo de ação substantiva e instrumental; mapeamento dos indicadores predominantes; identificação das tensões existentes; e compreensão dos efeitos das tensões no cotidiano organizacional e na gestão. Os resultados alcançados mostraram que a maioria das ações administrativas da ACAMAR são subsidiadas tanto pela lógica substantiva quanto pela lógica instrumental e, por conseguinte, as tensões entre elas são frequentes no cotidiano do empreendimento e nos processos de gestão. Mostrou-se também que os catadores lidam com a tensão na ACAMAR de duas formas: nada fazem a respeito, na medida em que não reconhecem sua existência; ou, ao reconhecerem sua existência tentam eliminá-la, porque a consideram indesejável. Portanto, em razão dessa forma na qual as tensões são encaradas pelos associados, o ambiente interno da Associação é marcado, mesmo com traços de substantividade por atritos, apatia, insatisfação, sentimento de não realização humana e não melhoria do êxito produtivo. Palavras-chave: Racionalidade Substantiva. Racionalidade Instrumental. Tensões. Tension between rationalities: case study of the association of collectors of recyclable materials of Lavras (ACAMAR) Abstract The present work dealswith a qualitative social research, carried out in a solidary economic enterprise of recyclable material collectors, in the city of Lavras, Minas Gerais. The aim of the study is to understand the effects of tensionsbetween substantive and instrumental rationalities in the management of ACAMAR (Associação de Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Lavras). For data collection, documentary research techniques, participant observation and semi-structured interviews were used. The analyzes took place in four moments: analysis of each constitutive element of substantive and instrumental action; mapping of the predominant indicators; identification of existing tensions; and understanding the effects of tensions on organizational and management daily life. The results achieved showed that most of ACAMAR's administrative actions are subsidized by both substantive and instrumental logic and, therefore, tensions between them are frequent in the daily life of the enterprise and in the management processes. It was also shown that waste pickers deal with the tension at ACAMAR in two ways: they do nothing about it, insofar as they do not recognize its existence, or when they recognize its existence, they try to eliminate it, because they consider it undesirable. Therefore, due to the way in which tensions are faced by members, the internal environment of the Association is marked despite the traces of substantivity by friction, apathy, dissatisfaction, a feeling of human lack of fulfillment and an improvement in productive success. Keywords: Substantive rationality. Instrumental rationality. Tensions.

scholarly journals Ferramentas jornalísticas na educação: uma rádio online para jovens

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (84) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria José Brites ◽  
Sílvio Correia Santos ◽  
Ana Jorge ◽  
Daniel Catalão
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Online Radio

The relationship between journalism and education remains in a yet weakly explored camp, although journalism can embody a pedagogical tool, oriented to the practice of journalistic concepts and techniques. In this article, we explore a case-study of an online radio developed with youth communities, using participant observation, interviews and focus groups conducted in the scope of the project RadioActive Europe (2013-14). We argue that these young participants take similar roles in daily life and particularly in school to those used in contexts of radio participation. Learning through action, however, implies long lasting intervention processes so that the transposal of roles taken up in the project may be more perennial, dynamic and fluid in the personal life processes.

Islamic and Jewish Religious Feminists Tackle Islamic and Jewish Oral Law: Maintenance and Rebellion of Wives

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-63
Author(s):  
Ruth Roded
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Political System ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Parallel Case ◽  
First Time

Beginning in the early 1970s, Jewish and Muslim feminists, tackled “oral law”—Mishna and Talmud, in Judaism, and the parallel Hadith and Fiqh in Islam, and several analogous methodologies were devised. A parallel case study of maintenance and rebellion of wives —mezonoteha, moredet al ba?ala; nafaqa al-mar?a and nush?z—in classical Jewish and Islamic oral law demonstrates similarities in content and discourse. Differences between the two, however, were found in the application of oral law to daily life, as reflected in “responsa”—piskei halacha and fatwas. In modern times, as the state became more involved in regulating maintenance and disobedience, and Jewish law was backed for the first time in history by a state, state policy and implementation were influenced by the political system and socioeconomic circumstances of the country. Despite their similar origin in oral law, maintenance and rebellion have divergent relevance to modern Jews and Muslims.

Possessing the Iconic Book

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 309-329
Author(s):  
Claudia V. Camp
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Ben Sira ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Iconic Status ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Woman Wisdom ◽  
Martin Marty

I propose that the notion of possession adds an important ideological nuance to the analyses of iconic books set forth by Martin Marty (1980) and, more recently, by James Watts (2006). Using the early second century BCE book of Sirach as a case study, I tease out some of the symbolic dynamics through which the Bible achieved iconic status in the first place, that is, the conditions in which significance was attached to its material, finite shape. For Ben Sira, this symbolism was deeply tied to his honor-shame ethos in which women posed a threat to the honor of his eternal name, a threat resolved through his possession of Torah figured as the Woman Wisdom. What my analysis suggests is that the conflicted perceptions of gender in Ben Sira’s text is fundamental to his appropriation of, and attempt to produce, authoritative religious literature, and thus essential for understanding his relationship to this emerging canon. Torah, conceived as female, was the core of this canon, but Ben Sira adds his own literary production to this female “body” (or feminized corpus, if you will), becoming the voice of both through the experience of perfect possession.

Film Marketing: the Case of the New Horizons Association

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Marcin Ptasznik
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Study Participant ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Marketing Actions

Approaches to marketing actions in culture are exhibiting rising significance in the modern dynamically changing environment. This paper is focused on the identification of possible applications of marketing in the sphere of culture, with particular reference to the film industry, field of operations of the New Horizons Association. The author’s research was based on a literature study, participant observation, and an online questionnaire, enabling creation of a case study on the New Horizons Association. Empiri-cal research allowed for exploration of the perception of marketing actions of this organization, as well as identifying possible directions for its development. Changes in the needs of modern consumers are related to ongoing virtualization and globalization of culture, and allow for academic discussion about the future of innovative cultural institutions and audio-visual ventures, including within the context of the current global coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

Disability and Work During the Industrial Revolution in Britain

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Blackie
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Paid Employment

A common claim in disability studies is that industrialization has marginalized disabled people by limiting their access to paid employment. This claim is empirically weak and rests on simplified accounts of industrialization. Use of the British coal industry during the period 1780–1880 as a case study shows that reassessment of the effect of the Industrial Revolution is in order. The Industrial Revolution was not as detrimental to the lives of disabled people as has often been assumed. While utopian workplaces for disabled people hardly existed, industrial sites of work did accommodate quite a large number of workers with impairments. More attention therefore needs to be paid to neglected or marginalized features of industrial development in the theorization of disability. Drawing on historical research on disability in the industrial workplace will help scholars better understand the significance of industrialization to the lives of disabled people, both in the past and the present.

scholarly journals Online collaboration and identity work in a brony fandom: Constructing a dialogic space in a fan translation project

2021 ◽  
pp. 204275302098892
Author(s):  
Liudmila Shafirova ◽  
Kristiina Kumpulainen
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Online Collaboration ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Affinity Groups ◽  
My Little Pony ◽  
Dialogic Space

Online collaboration has become a regular practice for many Internet users, reflecting the emergence of new participatory cultures in the virtual world. However, little is yet known about the processes and conditions for online collaboration in informally formed writing spaces and how these create opportunities for participants’ identity work. This ethnographic case study explores how four young adults, fans of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (bronies), negotiated a dialogic space for their online collaboration on a fan translation project and how this created opportunities for their identity work. After a year of participant observation, we collected interviews, ethnographic diaries and participants’ chats, which were analysed with qualitative content and discourse analysis methods. The findings showed how the Etherpad online writing platform used by the participants facilitated the construction of dialogic space through the visualization of a shared artefact and adjustable features. It was in this dialogic space where the participants negotiated their expert identities which furthered their discussions about writing, translating and technological innovations. The study advances present-day knowledge about online collaboration in affinity groups, engendering the construction of a dialogic space for collaborative writing and participants’ identity work.

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